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Year Two's Blog - 27th February
Sun 27 Feb 2022Welcome to Year Two's blog
What we learned last week
In maths last week we consolidated our previous addition and subtraction learning, focusing on adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers. Take a look at the knowledge planner here.
In our literacy lessons, the children looked at what makes a good leaflet. They focused on persuasive writing and producing their own leaflet about an event at Upton Country Park.
In our art lessons, the children created their own landscape paintings, drawing on their skills they have developed over the previous two weeks.
What we are learning this week
In maths this week we will be looking at the properties of 2D shapes, includes the names, number of sides, vertices and lines of symmetry. Here's our knowledge planner for this topic.
In our literacy lessons, the children will be learning about instructions - they will be making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday and writing instructions for how to make them. Here's the information sheet for this topic.
We will be beginning a Design and Technology topic where children will be designing and creating their own shield-shapes purse or wallet. We will begin with learning how to sew using a running stitch. Here's the knowledge organiser for this topic.
Next week's spellings
Set A
(for children doing RWI)
Set B
(for children not doing RWI)
We are learning these
'tricky words':
move
after
people
eye
because
who
Words containing the 'el'
grapheme making
the 'l' sound
camel
tunnel
squirrel
travel
towel
tinsel
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Year One Blog 18th February
Sun 20 Feb 2022Welcome to this week's Year One Blog
What we have been learning this week
This week in literacy, the children have been continuing to adapt their story of 'How to Catch a Star' and have written their 'Superhero Writes'.
In maths, we ordered and compared numbers to 50. Please see the knowledge and skills organiser.
This week we have been brilliant artists and we have made our very own space themed clay tile. The children used skills such as printing, engraving and joining.
What we are learning after the half term break
In literacy we will be looking at the traditional tale 'The Gingerbread Man' and we will be comparing it to an adapted version 'The Stinky Cheese Man.'
In maths, we will be continuing to learn place value within 50. Please see the knowledge and skills organiser.
In Geography we will be looking at the UK. We will be looking at the 4 countries and its capital cities. We will also be looking at weather and the surrounding seas.
Wow Work
At the bottom of the page you will be able to see the fantastic work the children have produced this week. Well done Year One!
The Otters have an extra play after the half term break for their amazing efforts collecting Doodle Maths Stars, Well done Otters!
Doodle Maths Stars
(total number of Doodle stars earned per class)
Otters
Extra playtime
Frogs
Ducks
341
294
171
Have a lovely half term break, stay safe!
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Year One Blog 11th February 2022
Fri 11 Feb 2022Welcome to this week's Year One blog.
What we have been doing this week
This week in literacy, the children have been continuing to adapt their story of 'How to Catch a Star' and have planned for their 'Superhero Writes'.
In maths, we introduced place value to 50. The children have been representing numbers to 50 in a variety of ways and they have partitioned these numbers into tens and ones using concrete and pictorial resources.
This week we have been brilliant artists and we have been learning about ways to manipulate clay.
What we are learning next week
Next week in literacy we will be writing our 'Superhero Writes' using everything we have learnt so far.
In maths, we will be continuing to learn place value within 50. Please see the knowledge and skills organiser.
In Art next week we are being brilliant sculptors and we will be creating a space themed clay tile.
Wow Work
At the bottom of the page you will be able to see the fantastic work the children have produced this week. Well done Year One!
The Otters have an extra play this week for their amazing efforts reading, well done Otters!
The Ducks have an extra play this week for their amazing efforts collecting Doodle Maths Stars, Well done Ducks!
Doodle Maths Stars
(total number of Doodle stars earned per class)
Otters
Frogs
Extra playtime
Ducks
338
375
95
Weekly Reads
(How many children in the class have read 3 times)
Otters
Extra playtime
Frogs
Ducks
15
13
10
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Year Two's Blog - 11th February
Fri 11 Feb 2022Welcome to Year Two's blog
What we have been doing this week
In maths we have been learning about statistics. We started the week by heading off down the road to carry out a traffic survey. The children created a tally chart and turned this into a pictogram. Throughout the week we have created tally charts, pictograms and block diagrams and answered questions about them. Here's our knowledge organiser.
The children have written their first 'Superhero Write' of the year, writing a character description about Grandma Bird. You can see some of their work below... (Take a look at the overview here.)
In our art lessons, we looked at different painting techniques including stippling and blocking and creating colour wheels. We learned about brilliant artists such as David Hockney and William Turner.
What we are learning next week
In maths next week we will be consolidating our previous addition and subtraction learning, focusing on adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers. Take a look at the knowledge planner here.
In our literacy lessons, the children will be looking at what makes a good leaflet. They will then be focusing on persuasive writing and producing their own leaflet about an event at Upton Country Park.
In our art lessons, the children will be creating their own landscape paintings, drawing on their skills they have developed over the last two weeks.
Next week's spellings
Set A
(for children doing RWI)
Set B
(for children not doing RWI)
We are recapping our set 2
sounds for spelling:
start
park
fort
cork
fair
pair
Words containing the 'le'
grapheme making
the 'l' sound
table
apple
bottle
middle
little
circle
Wow Work
It was great to see some children who previously hadn't read 3 times a week proud to tell their teachers that they had read 3 times this week. The Woodpeckers have done the double again this week, topping both the maths and reading chart.
Doodle Maths Stars
(total number of Doodle stars earned per class)
Woodpeckers
Extra playtime
Foxes
Squirrels
326
166
163
Weekly Reads
(How many children in the class have read 3 times)
Woodpeckers
Extra playtime
Foxes
Squirrels
21
15
20
Take a look below to see some of the learning which has been going on in Year Two this week.
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Year Two hit the road!
Mon 07 Feb 2022Some eagle-eyed parents may have spotted our Year Two children down at Moorland Way with clipboards in hands this morning. The children were carrying out a traffic survey as part of their maths work on statistics. They were creating a tally chart of the cars which they will be turning into a pictogram in tomorrow's maths lesson.
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Year One's Blog 4th February 2022
Fri 04 Feb 2022Welcome to this week's Year One blog.
What we have been doing this week
This week in literacy, the children have been adapting the story 'How to Catch a Star' using learnt nouns and plurals. They came up with silly sentences to create their own story.
In maths, we have learnt how to subtract numbers within 20 using a number line and the crossing out method. We have also been looking at fact families.
This week we have been brilliant mechanics and designed, created and evaluated our very own moving picture.
What we are learning next week
Next week in literacy we will be showing off the skills we have learnt so far in Year One. The children will continue to recap and adapt the story 'How to Catch a Star'.
In maths, we will be introducing place value within 50. Please see the knowledge and skills organiser.
In Art next week we are being brilliant sculptors and we will be practising different techniques and skills e.g. joining.
Wow Work
At the bottom of the page you will be able to see the fantastic work the children have produced this week. Well done Year One!
The Otters have an extra play this week for their amazing efforts reading, well done Otters!
The Ducks have an extra play this week for their amazing efforts collecting Doodle Maths Stars, Well done Ducks!
Doodle Maths Stars
(total number of Doodle stars earned per class)
Otters
Frogs
Ducks
Extra playtime
176
199
219
Weekly Reads
(How many children in the class have read 3 times)
Otters
Extra playtime
Frogs
Ducks
17
12
12
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This Week's Year Two Blog
Thu 03 Feb 2022Welcome to Year Two's blog
What we have been doing this week
In maths we have been learning about division. We have been dividing by 2 and using this to explore odd and even numbers. We also used our 5 and 10 x facts to help us divide. Here's our knowledge organiser for this topic.
In literacy, we continued reading George's Marvellous Medicine. (Take a look at the overview here.) We wrote our own character descriptions using expanded noun phrases to describe, and conjunctions to extend our sentences. You can hear the George's Marvellous Medicine being read by Rik Mayall here.
We continued our Geography learning this week. We compared the different continents and researched to find out more. Find out more in our knowledge organiser here.
What we are learning next week
In maths we will be learning about statistics. We will be creating tally charts, pictograms and block diagrams and answering questions about them. We will carrying out a traffic survey are displaying the data as a pictogram. Here's our knowledge organiser.
In our writing we be applying the skills that they have learnt this half term in our first superhero write of 2022. (Take a look at the overview here.) The children will be writing a character description of another grandma, but this time she is much nicer. Her name is Grandma Bird and this is also the name of our new text. You can watch the author read it here.
We will be starting two weeks of art next week. The children will be looking at different painting techniques including stippling and blocking and creating colour wheels. They will learn about brilliant artists such as David Hockney and William Turner.
Next week's spellings
Set A
(for children doing RWI)
Set B
(for children not doing RWI)
We are recapping our set 2
sounds for spelling:
low
snow
look
zoom
food
good
Words containing the 'wr'
grapheme making
the 'r' sound
write
written
wrote
wrong
wrap
wren
Wow Work
It was great to see some children who previously hadn't read 3 times a week proud to tell their teachers that they had read 3 times this week. The Woodpeckers have done the double again this week, topping both the maths and reading chart.
Doodle Maths Stars
(total number of Doodle stars earned per class)
Woodpeckers
Extra playtime
Foxes
Squirrels
534
112
161
Weekly Reads
(How many children in the class have read 3 times)
Woodpeckers
Extra playtime
Foxes
Squirrels
17
15
16
Take a look below to see some of the learning which has been going on in Year Two this week.
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